what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?


The first ones to come to mind are Whitney’s version of I Will Always Love You and Allen Stone’s Georgia On My Mind but I would love to hear other contributions as well! I feel like there are a lot of songs where a covered version gets more popular than the original and people end up not realizing that it is a cover (ex. i had a friend that genuinely believed the Jonas Brothers wrote Year 3000). so, what‘a a song that was written by one artist but (figuratively) owned by another?

kazana

Counting Crows: “Big Yellow Taxi” and I happen to love Joni Mitchell but on some songs, I find myself appreciating her voice in the same way that I enjoy the performance of the spring pageant where my kid has the lead.

Angel From Montgomery

Buddy Miller & Friends (with Brandi Carlile & The Lone Bellow)

My favorite version

“Love Is All Around”

- cover by WET,WET,WET versus

- original by THE TROGGS

 

 

 

Hallelujah” - cover by K.D. LANG versus original by LEONARD COHEN